The New Espionage Threat
I was just reading Businessweek’s April 10, 2008 cover ”The New Espionage Threat” and I am not surprised. If hackers can hack into banks and grocery / clothing stores they can surely hack themselves into every computer network out there. It’s no longer a matter of what these “cyber-attackers” can do but when they can do it. We can not anymore pretend that our network systems are secure just because they’re behind concrete walls or high fences. Cyber-attackers don’t even need to be in close proximity to their target to get in.And now, I learned, these cyber-attackers have foreign government sponsorship. It could even be that it is the foreign government who is orchestrating these attacks and hiding behind inconspicuous companies. It’s the new spy-game. And they don’t even have to send a warm body over.They are targeting our defense contractors and doing it in a large scale.